Sanctions Round Up: Third Quarter 2020
By EsqSocial Corporation 30/10/20
This quarter, the U.S. announced new sanctions and trade restrictions on China in response to its perceived intrusions on Hong Kong’s autonomy and reported human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The Trump Administration acted unilaterally to curtail Iran’s acquisition of conventional military weapons after receiving little international support for a snapback of U.N. sanctions. And, in a last-ditch effort to stall completion of the Nordstream 2 and Turkstream pipelines, the U.S. expanded the scope of...
By: Shearman & Sterling LLP